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A list of horror films released in 1981.
Title | Director(s) | Cast | Country | Notes | Ref. |
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Absurd | Joe D'Amato | George Eastman, Annie Belle, Charles Borromel | Italy | Alternative title(s)
| [1] |
The Alchemist | James Amante, Charles Band | Robert Ginty, Lucinda Dooling, John Sanderford | United States | [2] | |
Alison's Birthday | Ian Coughlan | Joanne Samuel, Margie McCrae, Martin Vaughan | Australia | [3] | |
An American Werewolf in London | John Landis | David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter | United States United Kingdom | [4] | |
The Beyond | Lucio Fulci | David Warbeck, Catriona MacColl, Al Cliver | Italy | Alternative title(s)
| [5] |
The Black Cat | Lucio Fulci | Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck | Italy United Kingdom | [6] | |
Blood Beach | Jeffrey Bloom | David Huffman, Marianna Hill, John Saxon | United States | [7] | |
Bloody Moon | Jesús Franco | Nadja Gerganoff, Otto Retzer, Jasmin Losensky | Germany | [8] | |
The Boogens | James L. Conway | Rebecca Balding, Fred McCarren, Anne-Marie Martin | United States | [9] | |
The Burial Ground | Andrea Bianchi | Italy | [10] | ||
The Burning | Tony Maylam | Leah Ayres, Larry Joshua, Jason Alexander | United States | [11] | |
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker | William Asher, Michael Miller | Susan Tyrrell, Jimmy McNichol, Julia Duffy | United States | Alternative title(s)
| [12] |
Cannibal Ferox | Umberto Lenzi | Danilo Mattei, Zora Kerova, John Bartha | Italy Spain | Alternative title(s)
| [13] |
Cataclysm | Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan | Cameron Mitchell, Marc Lawrence | United States | Alternative title(s)
| [14] |
Dark Night of the Scarecrow | Frank De Felitta | Lane Smith, Jocelyn Brando, Charles Durning | United States | Television film | [15] |
Dawn of the Mummy | Frank Agrama, Armand Weston | Brenda King, Barry Sattels, George Peck | United States | [16] | |
A Day of Judgment | Charles Reynolds | William T. Hicks, Harris Bloodworth, Deborah Bloodwoth | United States | [17] | |
Dead & Buried | Gary Sherman | James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson | United States | [18] | |
Deadly Blessing | Wes Craven | Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, Sharon Stone | United States | [19] | |
Demonoid | Alfredo Zacarías | Samantha Eggar, Stuart Whitman, Roy Jenson | Mexico | [20] | |
Docteur Jekyll et les femmes | Walerian Borowczyk | Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Howard Vernon | France | [21] | |
Don't Go Near the Park | Lawrence D. Foldes | Aldo Ray, Meeno Peluce, Barbara Bain | United States | [22] | |
Don't Go in the Woods | James Bryan | Nick McClelland, James P. Hayden, Mary Gail Artz | United States | ||
The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | Ellen Sandweiss, Bruce Campbell, Theresa Tilly | United States | [23] | |
Evilspeak | Eric Weston | Clint Howard, R. G. Armstrong, Lynn Hancock | United States | [24] | |
Eyes of a Stranger | Ken Wiederhorn | Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John DiSanti | United States | [25] | |
Fear No Evil | Frank LaLoggia | Stefan Arngrim, Elizabeth Hoffman, Kathleen Rowe McAllen | United States | [26] | |
Final Exam | Jimmy Huston | Sam Kilman, Cecile Bagdadi, DeAnna Robbins | United States | [27] | |
Friday the 13th Part 2 | Steve Miner | Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King | United States | [28] | |
Full Moon High | Larry Cohen | Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Elizabeth Hartman | United States | [29] | |
The Funhouse | Tobe Hooper | Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Largo Woodruff | United States | [30] | |
Galaxy of Terror | Bruce D. Clark | Robert Englund, Sid Haig, Grace Zabriskie | United States | [31] | |
Ghost Story | John Irvin | Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alice Krige | United States | [32] | |
Ghostkeeper | Jim Makichuk | Riva Spier, Murray Ord, Sheri McFadden | Canada | [33] | |
Graduation Day | Herb Freed | Christopher George, Patch MacKenzie, E. Danny Murphy | United States | [34] | |
Halloween II | Rick Rosenthal | Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis | United States | [35] | |
The Hand | Oliver Stone | Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe | United States | [36] | |
Happy Birthday to Me | J. Lee Thompson | Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Tracey E. Bregman | Canada | [37] | |
Hell Night | Tom DeSimone | Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton | United States | [38] | |
Home Sweet Home | Nettie Peña | Peter de Paula, Vinessa Shaw, Jake Steinfeld | United States | [39] | |
The House by the Cemetery | Lucio Fulci | Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Kenneth A. Olsen | Italy | [40] | |
The Howling | Joe Dante | Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan | United States | [41] | |
Inseminoid | Norman J. Warren | Judy Geeson, Robin Clarke, Jennifer Ashley | United Kingdom | [42] | |
The Intruder Within | Peter Carter | Chad Everett, Joseph Bottoms, Jennifer Warren | United States | Television film | [43] |
Just Before Dawn | Jeff Lieberman | Chris Lemmon, Deborah Benson, George Kennedy | United States | [44] | |
The Loch Ness Horror | Larry Buchanan | Sandy Kenyon, Miki MacKenzie | United States | [45] | |
Madhouse | Ovidio G. Assonitis | Trish Everly, Michael MacRae, Dennis Robertson | United States | Alternative titles
| [46] |
The Monster Club | Roy Ward Baker | Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence | United Kingdom | [47] | |
Ms .45 | Abel Ferrara | Zoe Tamerlis | United States | ||
My Bloody Valentine | George Mihalka | Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck | Canada | [48] | |
Mystics in Bali | H. Tjut Djalil | Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Santo, Sofia W.D. | Indonesia | [49] | |
The Nesting | Armand Weston | Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, Michael David Lally | United States | [50] | |
Night School | Ken Hughes | Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder | United States | [51] | |
Nightmare | Romano Scavolini | Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith, C. J. Cooke | United States | Alternative title(s)
| [52] |
Omen III: The Final Conflict | Graham Baker | Mason Adams, Lisa Harrow, Sam Neill | United Kingdom United States | [53] | |
Piranha II: The Spawning | James Cameron | Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen | Italy | [54] | |
The Pit | Lew Lehman | Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Laura Hollingsworth | Canada United States | [55] | |
Porno Holocaust | Joe D'Amato, Bruno Mattei | George Eastman, Annj Goren, Dirce Funari | Italy | [56] | |
Possession | Andrzej Zulawski | Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent | France West Germany | [57] | |
The Prowler | Joseph Zito | Vicki Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Cindy Weintraub | United States | [58] | |
Scanners | David Cronenberg | Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside | Canada | [59] | |
Scared to Death | William Malone | John Stinson, Diana Davidson, Jonathon David Moses | United States | ||
Strange Behavior | Michael Laughlin | Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor | Australia New Zealand | [60] | |
Suddenly at Midnight | Ko Young-nam | Kim Young-ae, Yoon Il-bong, Lee Ki-seon | South Korea | [61] | |
The Survivor | David Hemmings | Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten | Australia | [62] | |
This House Possessed | William Wiard | Parker Stevenson, Lisa Eilbacher | United States | Television film | [63] |
Venom | Piers Haggard | Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Sterling Hayden, Sarah Miles | United Kingdom | [64] | |
Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos | United States | [65] |
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- Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra (2011). Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4961-3.
- Joshi, S. T. (2007). Icons of horror and the supernatural: an encyclopedia of our worst nightmares. Vol. 2. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33782-6.
- Kerekes, David; Slater, David (2005). See No Evil: Banned Films and Video Controversy. London, England: Headpress. ISBN 978-1-900-48610-1.
- Mazur, Eric (2011). Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-33072-8.
- Muir, John Kenneth (2010). Horror Films of the 1980s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-45501-0.
- Pratley, Gerald (2003). A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide, 1900 to the Present. Toronto, Ontario: Lynx Images. ISBN 978-1-894-07321-9.
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External links
- Horror films of 1981 on Internet Movie Database